Champion & Reserve Champion Waterfowl

Champion Waterfowl of the 2011 Crossroads Show was awarded to:
Mr. Danny Padgett of Lake Butler, FL with his Black Muscovy - Old Male!

BB BV Black Muscovy - Old Male
Best Heavy Duck
Champion Waterfowl
Super Grand Champion of the 2011 Crossroads Show
By: Danny Padgett of Lake Butler, FL

Reserve Champion Waterfowl was awarded to Mr. Charlie Hodum of Corinth, MS 
with his White Call - Old Male!

BB BV White Call - Old Male
Best Bantam Duck
Res. Ch. Waterfowl
By: Charlie Hodum of Corinth, MS

Click the following link to see a video snippet of this fancy, white, Call Duck on Champion Row: 

Click here: Best Bantam Duck - Res. Ch. Waterfowl

 

Open Waterfowl Results

ENTRY NUMBERS 

Total Bantam Ducks: 749 

Light Ducks: 202 

Medium Ducks: 142 

Heavy Ducks: 248 

Total Large Ducks: 592 

Light Geese: 63 

Medium Geese: 132 

Heavy Geese: 156 

Total Geese: 351

Total Waterfowl: 1,692 

(these numbers exclude the Junior entries)

Charlie Hodum of Corinth, MS exhibited:
Best Bantam Duck with White Call - Old Male
(This Call was also Res. Overall Duck, and Res. Ch. Waterfowl)

Best Bantam Duck

Lou Horton / Acorn Hollow Bantams of W. Chicago, IL exhibited:
Res. Bantam Duck with Black East Indie - Old Male

Roland Doerr of Shakopee, MN exhibited:
Best Light Duck with White Indian Runner - Young Male

Annette Dillon of Portsmouth, OH exhibited:
Res. Light Duck with Blue Magpie - Old Male

Reserve Light Duck

Rick Hare of Springville, NY exhibited:
Best Medium Duck with Cayuga - Old Male

Rick Hare of Springville, NY exhibited:
Res. Medium Duck with Cayuga - Young Male

Reserve Medium Duck

Danny Padgett of Butler, FL exhibited:
Best Heavy Duck with Black Muscovy - Old Male
(This duck is your SUPER GRAND CHAMPION of the entire show beating 10,275 other birds competing for this title)

Best Heavy Duck

Jean Doerflein of Laurel, IN exhibited:
Res. Heavy Duck  with Rouen - Old Male

Reserve Heavy Duck

Ken Crawford of Mountain Grove, ON exhibited:
Best Light Goose with Egyptian - Old Male

Best Light Goose

Prairie Song Poultry of Van Meter, IA exhibited:
Res. Light Goose with Brown China - Old Bird

Reserve Light Goose
(Nearly impossible to photograph)

Melinda Hoffman of Marian, OH exhibited:
Best Medium Goose with Sebastopol - Old Female

Best Medium Goose

Jim & Patti Zimmerman of Berryton, KS exhibited:
Res. Medium Goose with Sebastopol - Young Female

Reserve Medium Goose

Steinbacher Poultry Farm of St. Joseph, MI exhibited:
Best Heavy Goose with Embden - Old Female

Best Heavy Goose

Roland Doerr of Shakopee, MN exhibited:
Res. Heavy Goose with Toulouse - Old Male

Reserve Heavy Goose

Candid Shots around the Show Hall

Outside the Show Hall

Entrance Sign

Banner hung in the Show Hall

Best Junior Light Goose

Reserve Junior Bantam Duck
Black East Indie

Best Junior Bantam Duck
Gray Call - Old Hen

Best Junior Bantam Duck
Gray Call - Old Hen

Best Junior Bantam Duck
Gray Call - Old Hen

Best Junior Bantam Duck
Gray Call - Old Hen

Best Junior Bantam Duck
Gray Call - Old Hen

American Bantam Association

American Bantam Association 

Junior Champion Row

Blue Fawn Call

Blue Fawn Calls

Gray Call

Gray Call 

Call Duck Breeder Lee Morey
all the way from Florida!

International Waterfowl Breeders Association

The IWBA National Meeting was held on Friday - October 28th at 3pm during the Crossroads of America Poultry Show in Indianapolis, Indiana at the State Fairgrounds.

President, Mr. James Konecny, called the meeting to order. Mr. Konecny spoke about how happy he is with the direction of the organization and proud to announce the 2,142 (this number includes juniors) waterfowl were exhibited at the Eastern National meet. 


Kenecny spoke about the wonderful IWBA Newsletter, which is exactly what he imagined it would be and then some. The Newsletter is "graphically strong," stated Kenecny. 


The membership was reminded that IWBA is an "educational based club" - promoting all the wonderful breeds of waterfowl and not like other clubs that promote "point chasing." Kenecny wants to continue to educate more about the rare breeds and support the existing, more popular breeds of waterfowl. 


The IWBA held an incubator raffle during the show to generate breeding interest and funds for the IWBA. Both Kenecny and secretary, Will Diaz, spoke highly of the decision to raffle an incubator during the Crossroads of America Show. 


Kenecny introduced the newest officer, Will Diaz, of Brighton, Illinois who will serve as the secretary for the IWBA. Diaz is transiting into the position, which has been a long process of about a year. The process includes transferring all materials and documents from the old secretary to the new. During the 1-year transitioning period any lapsed memberships were kept current due to the confusion that happens during this time period. Diaz asked membership to please contact him for any membership inquiries, especially any contact information changes. 


Lastly, Kenecny introduced, Mr. Lou Cunningham, who spoke about the qualifying meet of the Blue Fawn Call Duck variety and Mr. Walt Leonard, who spoke about both the Blue Fawn Call duck variety and the Blue Steinbacher Goose.


More information about the:
Blue Fawn Call Duck can be found here: Blue Fawn Qualified    
Blue Steinbacher Goose can be found here: Blue Steinbacher Goose

IWBA Booth at the
Crossroads of America Show

Blue Fawn Call Qualified!

As you may know this show was the qualifying meet for the Blue Fawn variety of the Call Duck Breed.

During the IWBA National Meeting held on Friday, October 28th - James Konecny introduced Lou Cunningham, who judged the Blue Fawn Calls. 


Lou explained a minimum of 50 birds are to be exhibited in order for the variety to be considered and recommended by a judge. The Call Breeders went above and beyond to put on one heck of a display! A grand total of 98 top-quality specimens were represented at this show.   


Lou Cunningham says this variety will "Blossom & Bloom" considering they are already at the point to be highly competitive with the other varieties!


He concludes with a glowing recommendation to APA & ABA to adopt the Blue Fawn as a recognized variety!


We later heard after the board meeting they Blue Fawn was officially accepted this weekend. 

BV - Blue Fawn - Male

Blue Fawn - Male

Blue Fawn males - Bird on the left was BV

CONGRATULATIONS to all the exhibitors and breeders who have worked hard over the past 5-years breeding this wonderful variety! 


Find the proposed standard and photos here: http://www.callducks.org/Blue_Fawn_standard.html

Check out this video snippet from the IWBA meeting 

about the Blue Fawn: